Use our metaphors and similes when you write your next poem, poetry or song.

Love Poems that contain expressive words will have a much greater impact on your readers.

90% of the metaphors contained in this site are very good examples of metaphors.

The other 10% are ornate or grandiloquent expressions; highly embellished: and flowery speech.

This site contains more metaphors than similes.

metaphor; A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in “a sea of troubles” or “All the world's a stage” (Shakespeare).
One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol: “Hollywood has always been an irresistible, prefabricated metaphor for the crass, the materialistic, the shallow, and the craven” (Neal Gabler).

simile; A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as, as in “How like the winter hath my absence been” or “So are you to my thoughts as food to life” (Shakespeare).